The Bloated Goat Saloon is my kind of bar. Not only is the name awesome, but the inside is the typical small town, turn of the century saloon with above average food.

J and I were heading out to Howell to do some Christmas shopping. Might as well get it out of the way early. I hate people and you can’t have a crowd without people and you can’t Christmas shop in December without crowds, so we went to the Tanger Outlets the week before Thanksgiving instead of the week after. We’re always on the lookout for new places and when I was searching for restaurants in and around Howell, I came upon a place called the Bloated Goat Saloon. There were a couple reviews that said the place was really neat and the food was good, so we decided to give it a try.

The Bloated Goat Saloon is in downtown Fowlerville. It’s not hard to find. There’s a huge sign hangining on the side of the building. The inside is dark, long, and narrow. There isn’t much width to the place. There’s a really neat bar running along one wall in the front of the space and tables along the other. The back of the room is filled with more tables and the usual pub games. Back to the bar for a second, it’s a really interesting design. There’s the bar, but there’s also a boxed in shelf a few feet above the bar. The whole thing is supported with steel pipe, so it looks like there are a bunch of “windows” when you’re sitting there. About half of the bar stools are attached to the bar itself and then there’s a couple of the more traditional free standing stools. Read the rest of this entry »